"Guity" pleasures?

Okay, I admit it. For an atheist and "rational" thinker, I delight in the irrational and unscientific when it comes to entertainment.

I know I'm not alone in being a Sci-Fi geek, but my big "guilty" (using quotes because I don't actually feel guilt about it) pleasure is that I love a good, religiously (most often biblically, I am in the U.S. after all) based storyline.

Now of course I'm not talking about propaganda pieces like the crap that is the "Left Behind" series. No, I'm talking stuff like End of Days, Devil's Advocate, and even the series Supernatural. All of those fun "what if the devil is real and Armageddon actually happened or at least almost happened?" kinds of storylines. I don't know why, they're very irrational, they're usually not even that well written, but I still enjoy them.

I can't be the only one so, along those same lines, what are your "guilty" pleasures?

I think that's why I like Supernatural. It's very religiously based, but "god" is an absentee father, the angels are bigger jerks than the demons are and the main characters are disgusted by all of it.

Okay, I admit it ... I used to watch "Medium." [Loren waits for the groans to die down!]

First of all, I rather liked it for its writing, for the plots and plot development and that we got to watch "Alison" and her three kids grow up as the seasons progressed.

I have to say, though, I also liked it for the character of Joe Dubois. Question: how many ENGINEERS does prime-time television have as a continuing character? It's never had many that I know of, but I really liked Joe. He was a straight-up guy who does what he can with his own problems, never mind having to deal with an oddly gifted wife (and apparently similarly gifted three daughters!).

It contained an "Evolution Chorus" to the tune of Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus". Bits included "E-volution! E-volution! Evolution! Evolution! Evolution!"; "For nothing lasts for ever and ever"; "Change is king, the gene is lord"; and a mention of "selfish genes".